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Congress Attacks Identity Theft

By: William A. Raabe, Co-Editor of the South-Western Federal Taxation series Issues involving identity theft have plagued citizens for over a decade. The most frequently encountered tax manifestations of identity theft include...

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Jeep Awarded to High School Student Is Taxable

By: Annette Nellen, Co-Editor of the South-Western Federal Taxation series Conyers, Order No. 13969-18 (9/11/19) – This designated order held that Ms. Conyers had to report the value of a Jeep and...

Quickly Add Any Web Page to MindTap

Reading Time: < 1 minute Here’s how, with 3 Clicks you can add websites to your MindTap Course. What You’ll Get from this Tip: Step 1: Install Diigo Bookmarklet Step 2: Create a Diigo Group...

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Coaches Are Now More Expensive for Universities with the New Excise Tax

By: D. Larry Crumbley, Contributor to the South-Western Federal Taxation series An excise tax at the Federal corporate tax rate (21 percent) is applied to the five highest-paid covered employees of tax-exempt organizations where...

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Virtual Reality: Tools to Try in Your Class

Reading Time: < 1 minute In her webinars on using virtual and mixed realities in higher ed, Corinne Hoisington shared ideas and tools to use these new technologies in your course. Here are some links...

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What Is Worse than a Hobby?

By: Gregory Carnes, Contributor to the South-Western Federal Taxation series For individual taxpayers, what is worse than having a revenue-generating hobby? Nothing!! This is even more true after the Tax Cuts and Jobs...

James Lang: How Teachers Could Make An Important Change to their Approach to Teaching

James Lang (author of the book “Small Teaching”) visited our Cengage offices in 2017 to talk about an approach to teaching that one of his colleagues (Ken Bain, author of “What...

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Proposal to Improve Tax Consequences of a Pell Grant

The taxation of higher education related savings, costs and interest expense is a fairly complex area of the law due to the numerous rules. Some of the rules don’t work in...

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